Using Trauma-Informed Motivational Interviewing to Support Tobacco Cessation
Monday, September 16, 2019 12:30pm ET
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Elizabeth Guroff, MA, LCMFTDirector of Trauma Informed ServicesNational Council for Behavioral Health
Dana LangeProject Manager, Practice ImprovementNational Council for Behavioral Health
Taslim van Hattum, LCSW, MPHDirector of Practice Improvement
National Council for Behavioral Health
Pam Pietruszewski, MA Integrated Health Consultant
National Council for Behavioral Health
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Today’s Overview
• Background & Context
• Motivational Interviewing Introduction with a Trauma-Informed Perspective
• MI and Trauma-Informed Applications to Smoking Cessation
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Laying the Groundwork
• Individuals who experience trauma in early adulthood are twice as likely to start smoking (Roberts, Fuemmeler, McClernon, & Beckham, 2008).
• Individuals who have been exposed to trauma and develop a full diagnosis of PTSD smoke more intensely. Rates of current cigarette smoking and nicotine dependence have been shown to be three times higher in individuals with PTSD than those in the general population (Roberts, Fuemmeler, McClernon, & Beckham, 2008).
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that adults with mental illness or substance use disorders consume almost 40% of all cigarettes smoked.
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Tobacco, Trauma and Motivational Interviewing: Practical Considerations and Applications
Ready… Set… Go?
Intention to quit tobacco among people with a mental illness :
• Within the next 30 days = 20-25%
• In the next 6 months = 40%
“Readiness appears to be unrelated to the psychiatric diagnosis, the severity of symptoms or the coexistence of substance use.”
Prochaska 2011 Smoking and Mental Illness – Breaking the Link
Readiness: Stages of Change
Prochaska &
DiClemente1983
Motivational interviewing (MI)
is a collaborative conversation style
for strengthening a person’s own
motivation and commitment to change.
Miller & Rollnick, 2012
Engaging
Focusing
Evoking
Planning
Ask
Advise
AssessAssist
Arrange
The Five A’s Tobacco Cessation
The Four Processes of MI
The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
Partnership
Evocation
Compassion
Autonomy
Deficit Competence
❑ Lacking insight, knowledge
❑ Fix
❑ Tell
✓ Capacity to change is within
✓ Ask
✓ Listen
What is Your View?
We begin to ask, “What happened to you?”
rather than“What is wrong with you?”
We have to ask, “What’s strong?”
rather than“What’s wrong?”
Paradigm Shift
Compassion in Our Work and Our WorldWorking through a Trauma-Informed Lens
We need to have…
Cultural Humility
Lifelong commitment
to self-evaluation and
self-critique
Desire to fix power imbalances where
none ought to exist
Aspiring to develop
partnerships with people and groups
who advocate for others
Cultural Humility is another way to
understand and develop a process-oriented approach to competency.
-Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998
“the ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented (or open to
the other) in relation to aspects of cultural identity that are most important to the
[person]” Hook et al, 2013
MI Strategies/Skills:OARs
• Open-Ended Inquiry
• Affirmations
• Reflections
Instead of… Try…
1. Can you cut back on
your smoking?
1. What do you like and dislike
about smoking?
2. Do you know about our
tobacco cessation group?
2. What do you know about our
tobacco cessation group?
3. Why haven’t you been
able to quit?
3. How have you approached
quitting in the past?
Open-Ended Inquiry
Sustain Talk
I won’t…It’s too hard…I don’t know…
Change Talk
I want…I thought about…
Maybe…
Ambivalence is Normal
Readiness Ruler
On a scale of 0 to 10…
how ready…?
how important …?
how confident…?
Affirmations & Reflections
• Supportive, testaments of character
• Genuine, direct reinforcements of what you are hearing or observing
• Demonstrate understanding
Examples
I’ve been coming here for 6 months, ever since I got out of
the hospital. I’m working really hard to take my meds and
show up for therapy so I don’t need you taking away the
one thing that seems to help the most – my cigarettes.
You’ve been committed to your treatment plan.
It feels as though cigarettes help with your symptoms.
You don’t want to be in the hospital again.
Survival Mode Response
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study
The Adverse Childhood Experience Study Behavioral Heath at the Foundation of all Health
• Over 17,000 adults studied from 1995-1997
• Almost 2/3 of participants reported at least one ACE
• Over 1/5 reported three or more ACEs, including abuse, neglect, and other types of childhood trauma
• Major links identified between early childhood trauma and long term health outcomes, including increased risk of many chronic illnesses and early death
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Affect on Health and Well-being
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and adolescent health. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/
Life-Long Physical, Mental & Behavioral Health Outcomes Linked to ACEs
• Intimate partner violence—perpetration & victimization
• Liver disease
• Lung cancer
• Obesity
• Self-regulation & anger management problems
• Skeletal fractures
• Suicide attempts
• Work problems—including absenteeism, productivity & on-the-job injury
• Alcohol, tobacco & other drug
addiction
• Auto-immune disease
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease & ischemic heart disease
• Depression, anxiety & other
mental illness
• Diabetes
• Multiple divorces
• Fetal death
• High risk sexual activity, STDs &
unintended pregnancy
Discharge of Trauma
When trauma is not discharged
Inability to
• Respond
• Learn
• Process
Understand the Mind/Body Connection
What Inhibits Caregivers from being Trauma Responsive?
Resilience: Ability to adapt well to stress, adversity, trauma or tragedy
Emotional regulation: The ability to control
our emotions, attention, and thus
our behaviorImpulse control:
The ability to manage
expression of our feelings.
Accurate identification of
the cause of adversity
Self-efficacy: The sense that we can
solve problems and succeed
Realistic optimism: Being positive
about the future and realistic
Empathy: Able to read others behavior, to
understand their states, and build
relationship
Reaching out: The continued drive to
take on more challenges and opportunities
Culture is…the shared values, traditions, arts,
history, folklore, and institutions of a group of
people that are unified by race, ethnicity,
nationality, language, religious beliefs,
spirituality, socioeconomic status, social class,
sexual orientation, politics, gender, age,
disability, or any other cohesive group variable.
Singh, 1998
Culture is…the communication and interaction
guide of any cohesive group of people
Sockalingam, 2019
Martino 2002 J Subst Abuse Treat
Skill Considerations Example
Open-Ended Inquiry
Avoid compound questions. Person may have difficulty tracking or organizing response.
What is most important to you?If you decided to quit, how would you do it?
Affirmation Use often to counter social stigma, feeling invalidated and incapable.
You’re not someone who gives up easily.
Reflections Use often, with simple terms, allow time to process and respond.
Quitting smoking is not something you want to do right now - and yet you’ve thought about whether it’s actually making things worse.
MI Applications for People with Dual Diagnosis
Case Example #1
I’m taking the meds but I don’t like them. They make
me groggy and numb. I think smoking actually perks me
up and helps me get through the day. I know you want
me to quit and I don’t want lung cancer but it’s
probably too late anyway.
Case Example #2
I’ve tried treatment and it doesn’t help – whenever I
see a psychiatrist, I end up in a mental hospital. I
haven’t seen a doctor in a long time. I know my health
is bad but I don’t need a lecture about cigarettes right
now.
Dobber 2018 BMC Psychiatry
✓ Trusting relationship: Empathy, acceptance and understanding. Person is allowed to tell their story and express their ambivalence.
✓ Ability to adapt: Open ended questions & reflections rather than forcing facts and ignoring the other person’s perception. Express both sides of ambivalence.
✓ Link goals with change: Reflect stated goals & values AND the person’s willingness/ability to change for them (change talk).
Success Factors
Pam Pietruszewski
Integrated Health Consultant
Elizabeth Guroff
Director, Trauma Informed Services
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